Boys' Birthdays

We've experienced birthday mania over the last few days in that both of our boys have a birthday in September. In fact, while they're 3 years apart in age, their birthdays are back-to-back on 21 and 22 September, which, I can assure you, was totally unplanned. We just obviously have a "lucky" month about 9-10 months prior.

Not having lived here for a long period of time, we opted to allow the boys to invite a couple of friends over to hang out at the house before going to a kid-friendly event on base, then out to pizza and eventually home again for cake and ice cream. They were cool with that. I have a really hard time throwing a huge party and inviting tons of kids when we don't know them and they don't know us. It would make me feel like people are thinking we just want gifts. Of course our kids DO want gifts, but I'm uncomfortable inviting both boys' entire classrooms when we're brand-new someplace.

The boys received some nice gifts this year... new bikes from us (much-needed as they'd outgrown their old ones), Star Wars models, Legos, money and of course the ever-coveted Wii games and extra controllers. Wii is where it's at these days.

So here's my oldest "baby," who is certainly no longer a baby at the age of 12.
And here's my youngest "baby," who just turned 9.
These boys are growing up entirely too fast! Next year I'll be the mother of a TEENAGER. Man, where did the time go?